there are loads of cover versions which surpass the original
Palace Brothers' version of Horses; Cowboy Junkies version of Powderfinger; Johnny Cash's versions of If You Could Read my Mind and One; Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 3 Dec 2013, 13:23, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

Even though it was X Factor fodder, I didn't mind Alexandra Burke's Hallelujah either. Dramatic.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 3 Dec 2013, 13:27, Reply)

no, it was shit
Worse than the horrific Bon Jovi version too.

Then again, Leonard Cohen's original version is awful.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 3 Dec 2013, 13:29, Reply)

i like the rufus wainwright version

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 3 Dec 2013, 13:58, Reply)

if only i didn't have it on the "shrek" soundtrack :(

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 3 Dec 2013, 13:58, Reply)

Concrete Blonde's version of Everybody Knows.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 3 Dec 2013, 13:31, Reply)

Cowboy Junkies version of Blue Moon

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 3 Dec 2013, 13:33, Reply)